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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's amazing how many people will self-censor and add disclaimers when speaking irl these days.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

cws/disclaimers are good
censorship (including self-censlrship) is bad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The excellent podcast Search Engine has an episode on this topic with a guest expert in the field who absolutely agrees.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

I definitely appreciate them. Its not useless.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's yet another dystopian online trend that China pioneered over a decade before the 'free' internet adopted it because money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Instagram or smart phones didn't exist when China started it. This isn't about TikTok starting anything.